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New Zealander, Volume XXI, Issue 2252, 18 October 1864, Page 5

Benefit fok the Orphan's Home.—On Tuesdaynext Mr. G. Fawcett will read Dickens' " Cricket on the Hearth," and the " Bardell Trial" at St. Mathew's Schoolroom, the proceeds of the lecture to go in aid of the funds ot the above institution. A large number of tickets haYe already been disposed of, and wo should advise all who would not lose a great intellectual treat, to secure their seats immediately. Sir D. A. Cameron.—Referring to the attack made upon General Sir Duncan Cameron by the United Service Gazette, the Eawlce's Bay Herald of the Bth instant says:—General Cameron may afford to despise such attacks. If he cares for the confidence of the ministry at home, he knows that he possesses it; it he values" the good will and hearty admiration of the New Zealand colonists, he feels that it is his; and as for tho troops under his command, officers and men, he deserves and enjoys their lore and almost adoration, from the day when, bare-headed and unarmed, he led the advance, cap in hand, cheering and waving them to follow to their first victory under his command. A soldier of the Ist Pa. Cavalrj, in the Potomac army, was a short time since found asleep near Warranton, Va., having slept 24 hours. He stepped up to hi* captain and said, " Captain, I die to-morrow at 4 •'clock, and the war will end in June. You have no more for me to do." As the clock struck 4on the following day he died without a groan.